From Christie to Bola��o: Adam Roberts' Five Favourite Puzzle Whodunits

I love puzzle whodunits. On account of my crime-novel-loving mother I grew up in a house full of them, which meant that���when I ran out of SF titles���I would pick a green-liveried penguin off the shelf and read that instead: Margery Allingham; Michael Innes; Ngaio Marsh; Edmund Crispin. And of course Agatha Christie. I read huge numbers of such books growing up. I still read them today.

So: one of the things I do as a SF author is write SF puzzle whodunits. I did it with a book of mine cal...